Columbia Journalism Reviewtag:www.cjr.org,2011-09-12://142015-02-26T23:06:32ZColumbia Journalism Review: The future of media is hereESPN's The Undefeated off the groundtag:www.cjr.org,2015://14.417822015-02-12T17:50:00Z2015-02-26T23:06:32ZJason Whitlock's long delayed race and sports site launches first storyChris IpWhat will happen to The New York Times' race beat?tag:www.cjr.org,2015://14.416822015-01-28T19:33:00Z2015-02-12T18:17:49ZIt's uncertain if the newspaper will replace Tanzina Vega, who is moving to the metro deskChris IpIs it ever okay to name victims?tag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.413572014-10-24T15:00:00Z2014-12-12T02:51:46ZEditors question the policy of omitting information in sexual assault and domestic violence cases
Nigel Duara
In 1990, The Des Moines Register took the rare step of naming a rape victim in a series that won the following year's Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Pulitzer committee wrote that the series prompted "widespread reconsideration of the traditional media practice of concealing the identity of rape victims." The series, about Nancy Ziegenmeyer's rape and her subsequent experiences
We Need to Talk is part of the solutiontag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.413092014-10-20T15:00:00Z2014-10-20T21:13:15ZA new CBS show is breaking barriers for women in sports mediaTravis Waldron
To say that We Need To Talk, CBS Sports Network's new show with a cast of all women, picked a perfect launch date might understate the timing. The show made its debut on September 30, right as the sports world around it had exploded thanks to the NFL's fumbled handling of the domestic violence case involving Baltimore Ravens running back
Michael Brown shooting and the crimes journalists choose as newsworthytag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.411432014-08-28T10:50:00Z2014-08-29T17:52:08ZExamining why black suspects are covered at a greater proportion than they commit crimesAlexis Sobel Fitts
Since Michael Brown's fatal shooting on August 9, news coverage of the event and its aftermath has been followed by a second wave of analyses scrutinizing those initial stories for racial bias. When news outlets ran a particularly ominous photograph of Brown, wearing a red jersey, fingers splayed in possible gang signal (friends say it was his characteristic peace sign),
Why The New Yorker's radical feminism and transgenderism piece was one-sidedtag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.410312014-08-06T14:08:01Z2014-08-30T22:01:43ZJos Truitt
Last week's New Yorker article, "What Is a Woman: The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism" by Michelle Goldberg has been widely criticized since its publication. The article purports to offer a history of conflict between trans-exclusionary feminists and trans women. Yet it ignores the vast majority of that history, offering New Yorker readers a one-sided view of the conflict
After 29 years, Freep is indefinitely halting its high school journalism program (UPDATED)tag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.409462014-07-16T15:15:00Z2014-08-26T15:30:48ZIt has long been a pipeline, sending local, diverse talent to prominent journalism careersAaron Foley
UPDATE, August 26, 2014: The Freep has announced that the program will continue, thanks to a one-time donation from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Knight Foundation. Original story: The Detroit Free Press is abruptly ending a 29-year-old high school journalism program within weeks, where high school students were brought into the newsroom to work alongside seasoned professionals.
In the rise of race beats, echoes of historytag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.409322014-07-15T10:50:00Z2014-07-15T15:35:21ZReporters devoted to covering race and ethnicity find stories most others missTracie Powell
Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran may owe the Congressional Black Caucus for helping him beat back a tea party challenger in his state's primary last month, but journalists have the Associated Press' Jesse Holland to thank for breaking the news last month in the first place. As a race and ethnicity reporter at the AP, the tale of mostly Democratic black
Mainstream coverage of sexual assault on college campuses grew only after powerful men entered the conversationtag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.408942014-07-02T18:50:00Z2014-07-03T09:58:54ZThe issue, long covered by reporters in the feminist space, attracted more coverage in the wake of a PSA from the executive branch Fiona Lowensteinhttp://www.cjr.org
Jon Stewart weighed in last week on the debate surrounding sexual assault on college campuses with a satirical and poignant segment on The Daily Show entitled "The Fault in Our Schools." The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The segment opens with a searing indictment of James Madison University, which, Stewart reports, recently
Women science writers conference about changing the ratiotag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.408032014-06-18T15:00:00Z2014-06-18T15:47:59ZA summit last weekend presented actions to address systemic gender inequities in science journalismCristine RussellAs newspapers cut their opinion sections, African American voices take a disproportionate hittag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.407832014-06-12T12:30:00Z2014-06-12T21:01:21ZSince 2008, newspapers have laid off, reassigned, or retired at least 21 black opinion writersTracie Powell
This week the city of Memphis, TN, lost its only female, African American metro columnist. The editor in chief of The Commercial Appeal reassigned Wendi C. Thomas to lead the newspaper's cops and courts beat, a job she first had back in 1998. The move is part of the newspaper's efforts to reorganize for the digital era, according to an
The demise of NPR's Tell Me More can be traced to member stationstag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.407512014-06-05T10:50:00Z2014-06-09T14:38:19ZShows won't succeed if affiliates won't run themTracie Powell
The National Black Church Initiative, a coalition of 34,000 churches, asked members and parishioners late last month to refrain from donating to NPR in response to the public radio network's recent decision to cancel Tell Me More with Michel Martin at the end of July. "This represents the third time NPR has cancelled a wonderfully ­produced, nationally ­recognized African American
The Atlantic's Coates discusses his epic reparations cover storytag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.407222014-05-27T18:50:00Z2014-05-27T18:42:43ZBuzzFeed Deputy Editor in Chief Shani Hilton interviewed Coates on Tuesday morningJennifer Vanasco
Ta-Nehisi Coates believes America owes reparations to African Americans. Not for slavery, though the problem stems from that. But from the systematic shutting out of black people from the American dream: a house to call their own. Coates' persuasive, heartbreaking, 16,000-word cover story in the June issue of The Atlantic on reparations is already creating buzz, so it makes sense
Video: How net neutrality shifts may impact diversity onlinetag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.407072014-05-22T10:50:00Z2014-05-21T21:05:56Z"Keep the playing field free and clear for everybody"Tracie Powell
Will the FCC's proposed new rules governing internet traffic further hurt those whose views and voices are already underrepresented in mainstream media? CJR moderated a 45-minute video chat with media entrepreneurs including Davey D, an independent journalist who writes about hip-hop culture and politics at hiphopandpolitics.com, daveyd.com, and hosts a San Francisco-based radio show; Kelly Virella, who founded online hyperlocal
Post Abramson, women in journalism push for pay transparencytag:www.cjr.org,2014://14.406792014-05-16T18:30:00Z2014-05-17T11:07:20ZA firing leads to an industry discussionKira Goldenberg
Part of what reportedly led to Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of The New York Times, being fired on Wednesday was her push for pay parity. According to The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, whose reporting on her ouster is fast becoming the definitive account: As executive editor, Abramson's starting salary in 2011 was $475,000, compared to Keller's salary